"Why is India doing this ?" asks South African cricket writer Neil Manthrop on Wisden India about the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) decision to play only two Test matches during their South African tour this winter. The one that is dropped is one of the great cricket events - the New Year's Test at Newlands.
So why? It's like dogs licking their bollocks - because they can. Is the BCCI against Test cricket? Not if it brings in the money they're not. Five Test matches v England to look forward to next summer. Even SA only got four. But then with daily tickets at around £100 plus their share of the broadcasting rights it's a nice little off-season earner for the BCCI. And the Indian diaspora, most of them born in Britain (like their parents) will stump up generously for tickets and all the bright blue gear. More $$$ no doubt for the corrupt gangsters of Indian cricket.
The BCCI calls all the tunes. The Lorgatt affair is scandalous - but he was always going to be too honest for the mobsters at the ICC.
In around ten years time someone will write a book with a title like "Who killed Test cricket?" The answer is of course there now for all to see. The body is not yet a corpse. But it's only a matter of time before it's laid out to rest on a Mumbai rooftop to be pecked to death by the vultures.
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